RMS on Plan 9 license, with my comments
John Cowan
jcowan at reutershealth.com
Tue Jul 25 14:30:19 UTC 2000
David Johnson wrote:
> I believe that copyright grants the user the right to make
> modifications. HOWEVER, it does not also confer the right to distribute
> those modifications.
The U.S. Copyright Act (section 106), which I will take as typical, says:
# § 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works
# Subject to sections 107 through 120, the owner of copyright under this title
# has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: [...]
# (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work [...].
"Prepare", not merely "distribute".
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